Blogs about OA

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

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• This is list of blogs which focus largely on open access.

• Please indicate the blog's author or primary authors. When its primary language is not English, please indicate what it is.

• Alphabetical.

• If a blog is no longer updated, move it from the active blog list to the discontinued blog list.

• Related lists in OAD: (1) Discontinued blogs about OA, (2) Discussion forums, (3) Social media sites about OA.

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• Abierto al publico (RSS feed). In Spanish.

• About Open Access (RSS feed). From the University Medical Center Gronigen.

• @ccess. "Sharing the results of scientific research." (No RSS feed?) From the @ccess project.

• Acceso Abierto (RSS feed). From Carolina De Volder. In Spanish.

• "Access Denied?": Fighting for the 'Right to Open Access' (RSS feed) . A student-run blog inspired by the Right to Research Coalition.

• Access to Health Information (RSS feed). From Juan Ramos.

• Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (RSS feed). From Peter Magierski and Charles Ellwood Jones.

• Ancient World Open Bibliographies (RSS feed). From Chuck Jones.

• Adjacent Open Access. (No RSS Feed). From Lisa Carnwell.

• ADS Blog (RSS feed) From Astrophysics Data System.

• Ann's Blog. "My Musings on Open Science and Public Engagement."

• Annotated AOA "Accessibility and OA Resources – Annotated." From Stewart Baker.

• Anyway (RSS feed). From Marijke. In Dutch.

• Arab Initiatives of Open Access (RSS feed). From Sulieman Salem Alshuhri and others. In Arabic.

• Archivalia: Category Open Access (RSS Feed). From Klaus Graf. In German.
  • Also contains entries in English on Open Access: English Corner

• Association of Research Libraries - Scholarly Communication (RSS feed)

• Australian Open Access Support Group (RSS feed). "Supporting open access to Australian research".

• Author Rights Model License Language (RSS feed for news/updates to the blog) (RSS feed for comments about the language)

• autour de l'Open Science (RSS feed). From Nadege Joly and Taina Cluzeau. In French.

• ASAPbio RSS Feed. From Daniel Colón Ramos, Jessica Polka, Ron Vale, and Harold Varmus.

• AWOL - The Ancient World Online (RSS feed). In English. From Charles Jones.

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• Be Openly Accessible or Be Obscure (RSS feed). From Jim Till.

• BioMed Central Blog (RSS feed). From BioMed Central.

• BioSharing (RSS feed). From Dawn Field.

• Blog do Kuramoto. From Hélio Kuramoto. In Portuguese

• Blog ONE (RSS feed). From Niyaz Ahmed.

• Brainstorm in Progress (RSS feed). From Geoff Cain.

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• City Open Access (RSS feed). From Neil Stewart at City University.

• College Open Textbooks Blog (RSS feed). From Sharyn Fitzpatrick and Rod Kirk.

• communs / commons / comuns / comunes (No RSS feed). The blog associated with the Public Domain Manifesto. In French.

• Comptoir de l'accès ouvert (RSS feed). OA and libraries. In french.

• Copyright and "Open" Movements Blog (RSS feed). From James D. "Kip" Currier.

• Copyright on Campus (RSS feed). From Christine Ross

• Create Change (RSS feed)

• Creative Commons (RSS feed)

• Cureus Blog (No RSS feed). Associated with Cureus, the open access medical science journal.

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• DataUp (RSS feed). From the University of California Curation Center (UC3) and the California Digital Library.

• Digging Digitally (RSS feed). From Erik Kansa.

• Digital & Scholarly (RSS feed). From Adrian K. Ho.

• DigitalKoans (RSS feed). From Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

• Directory of Open Access Books (RSS feed).

• Dryad news and views (RSS feed). From the Dryad open-data repository.

• DuraSpace Blog (RSS feed). From Carissa Smith, Carol Minton Morris, and Valorie Hollister at DuraSpace.

• Dynamic Repositories (RSS feed). From Paola Bongiovani. In Spanish.

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• E-LIS: Open Access Archive for LIS (RSS feed). From Alireza Noruzi. In Persian.

• End-to-End Open Access No RSS Feed?. From JISC.

• EPrints News (RSS feed). From EPrints.

• EPT (Electronic Publishing Trust for Development) (RSS feed). From Barbara Kirsop.

• EveryONE (RSS feed). From PLoS ONE.

• Evidnt (RSS Feed).

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• Film Studies For Free (RSS feed). From Catherine Grant.

• Free as in Science (RSS feed). From Sandeep Gautam.

• Free Government Information (RSS feed). From Jim A. Jacobs and others.

• Fuse Open Science Blog (RSS Feed). From The Center for Translational Research in Public Health.

• Free US ETDs (FUSE). "Promoting Open Access to American graduate research". From Gail Clement.

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• Gavin Baker (RSS feed). From Gavin Baker.
  • Only the posts about open access (RSS feed)

• Gold Open Access Infrastructure.

• Greek Open Science (RSS feed) From Nikos Karagiannakis. In Greek.

• Gulliver Turtle's Blog (RSS feed). From Gulliver, BioMed Central's open access turtle.

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• A Hacker's View: Open Access, Digital Publishing, and Academic Writing (RSS feed). From Andrea Hacker.

• Harvard Open Data Project. (No RSS Feed). From Neel Mehta, Athena Kan, Brian Sapozhnikov, and Chris Kuang.

• hinc-omnia (RSS feed) . Based out of Uniwersytet Warszawski. In Polish.

• Huddersfield Open Access Publishing (RSS feed). From the Huddersfield Open Access Publishing project, which is part of the JISC Digital infrastructure programme.

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• ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies (RSS Feed). From Dr. Suchith Anand and Thierry Badard.

• I Love Open Access "Arguments for Open Access to Research Results".

• iCommons.org (RSS feed)

• The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics (RSS feed). From Heather Morrison.

• Indian IDR World (RSS feed). "Blog on Indian Institutional Repository." From Ziaul Haque.

• Informationsplattform Open Access (RSS feed). In German. A joint project of the Universities of Bielefeld, Goettingen, Constance, and the Free University of Berlin.

• Iniedigital (RSS feed) Education Research Institute (INIE)Journal Actualidades Investigativas en Educación University of Costa Rica. In Spanish. From Isabel Jara Quesada and Alejandro Vílchez Barboza.

• InTechWeb Blog (RSS feed). From InTechWeb.

• Intellectual Property and "Open" Movements Blog (No RSS Feed). From James 'Kip' Currier.

• Intellectual Property Watch (RSS feed)

• International Scholarly Open Access Research (ISOAR). From Subhan Sree.

• IOSA.it Open Archaeology (RSS feed). From Stefano Costa.

• Issues in Scholarly Communication (RSS feed)

• iterating toward openness (RSS feed). From David Wiley

• InfoDoc MicroVeille (RSS feed). From Hans Dillaerts

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• Jeszke (RSS feed). From Łukasz Jeszke. In Polish.

• JoRD. (RSS feed). From JoRD (Journal Research Data Policy Bank).

• Journalology (RSS feed). From Matt Hodgkinson.

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• Knowledge Ecology International (RSS feed)

• KnowledgeMaze (RSS Feed). From Access to Knowledge for Development Center

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• L’édition électronique ouverte (RSS feed). "The open electronic publishing blog." From Marin Dacos and others at the Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte (CLEO). In French.

• Lessig blog (RSS feed). From Lawrence Lessig.

• Lever Initiative (No RSS feed). Investigating open access in American liberal arts colleges for The Oberlin Group.

• Libertas Academica (RSS feed). "Open access journals, science, and the publishing business." From Libertas Academica, the OA journal publisher.

• Liber-Libre[ http://erinclupp.wordpress.com/feed/ (RSS feed)]. From Erin Clupp, librarian, archivist and bookbinder.

• LOCH. Lessons in Open Access Compliance for Higher Education. (RSS Feed). From Dominik Tate, University of Edinburgh.

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• MALAYSIAN OPEN ACCESS SUPPORT GROUP From Muhammad Akmal Ahmat. In Malaysian.

• McBlawg (RSS feed). From Graham Steel.

• Medimise.com. (No RSS feed.) "Open Access Medical Research and Health News". Anon.

• Michael Geist Blog (RSS feed). From Michael Geist.

• MIT Society for Open Science (RSS feed). From the MIT student group, MIT Society for Open Science.

• Modus Operandi for Repository Deposits (RSS feed). From the JISC-Funded DepositMO project.

• Mohylianska bibliotekarka (RSS feed). From Tetiana Yaroshenko. In Ukrainian.

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• NARAtions (RSS feed). "A Blog about Online Public Access to the Records of the U.S. National Archives."

• Netzwerk von Open-Access-Repositorien (RSS feed). From the Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI). In German.

• The New Open Access (NOA) for journal publishing industry (RSS feed). From Reza Farrahi.

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• OAnarchy (RSS Feed). From Josh Bolick, Ada Emmett, Marc L. Greenberg, Town Peterson, and Brian Rosemblum.

• Open Access Bangladesh. (No RSS Feed). From Golam Mustafa, Dr. Anisuzzaman Khan, Lutful Hafiz, Ashraful Kabir Jewel, Dr. Mirza Rezaul Islam, Dr. Md. Mustafizur Rahman, and Mamun Abdul Kaioum.

• Open Access India Building Open Access Movement in India.

• OA Bibliography (RSS feed). From Lucia Bertini. In English and Italian.

• OpenAire Blog (RSS Feed). From the National Open Access Desks.

• OA Good Practice Pathfind Project - Bath (RSS feed). Reporting on the JISC-Funded Project run by the GW4 partnership between the University of Bath, University of Bristol, Cardiff University and University of Exeter.

• OA Librarian (RSS feed). From Heather Morrison and Andrew Waller.

• OA-RJ project blog (RSS feed). From the Open Access Repository Junction (OA-RJ) project.

• OA@UCD (RSS feed). From the University College Dublin.

• OAMPHJ (Open Access Medical and Public Health Journals: links to latest updates) (RSS feed).

• OASCIR (RSS feed). "Building an Institutional Repository for the University of Khartoum's Faculty of Science." From Pablo de Castro and Rania Baleela.

• OASPA News and Comment (RSS feed). From the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA).

• The Occasional Pamphlet (RSS feed). From Stuart Shieber.

• OCW Blog (RSS feed). "Blogging the OpenCourseWare and OER Movements." From Mike Caulfield.

• OERderves (RSS feed). From Marshall Smith, Catherine Casserly, and Phoenix Wang.

• OER Research Hub (No RSS Feed). From Patrick McAndrew, Martin Weller, Robert Farrow, and Beck Pitt.

• OER World Map (RSS Feed). From Philipp von Böselager, Karin Driesen, Dr. Robert Farrow, Felix Link, Jan Neumann, Felix Ostrowski, Adrian Pohl, Johannes Schnettker, Ben Buschfeld.

• OJS Latin America (RSS feed). "Regional news and information about Open Journal Systems." From Open Journal Systems.

• OKF Open Science Working Group (No RSS feed?). From Open Knowledge Foundation. In German.

• OLE Blog From The Open Library Environment.

• oMedPub (RSS feed). From iMedPub.

• Omega Alpha Open Access (RSS feed). "Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology." From Gary Daught.

• Open... (RSS feed). From Glyn Moody.

• Open Access all'Universita di Torino (No RSS feed). From L'Universita di Torino. In Italian.

• Open Access and Digital Scholarship Blog (RSS feed). From the Imperial College London.

• Open Access Belgium – Promoting Open Science From Ghent Univeristy Library and University of Liège Library.

• Open Access blogg RSS feed). In Norwegian.

• Open Access Facil From Octavio Ruiz Jorge Vaca. In Spanish.

• Open Access Initiatives: India (RSS feed). From Sehdeep Kaur at the University of British Columbia.

• Open Access for All (RSS feed). From Jenna Horowitz.

• Open Access Linguistics (RSS feed). From George Walken.

• Open Access - Making Sense (RSS feed). Associated with the JISC OA pathfinder project and Oxford Brookes University.fope

• Open Access Media Studies From Jeroen Sondervan and the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS).

• Open Access to Scholarly Communication (RSS feed). From Frank van Laerhoven at Utrecht University.

• Open Access to Scientific Communication (RSS feed). From Hans Dillaerts and Helene Bosc. In English and French.

• Open Folklore (No RSS feed). From the Open Folklore Project, including Julie Bobay and Timothy Lloyd.

• Open Syllabus Project (No RSS feed). Created using a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

• openfigures (RSS feed). Compiled figures and images from open access papers from Public Library of Science (PLOS).

• OpenAccess@StAndrews. From St Andrews University Library.

• Open.Michigan blog. From the University of Michigan Open.Michigan project. (No RSS feed?)

• Openness is Freedom. From Simone Aliprandi.

• Open2Learn (RSS feed). From Robert Hughes, Jr.

• openarchives.gr/blog (RSS feed). In Greek. From Vangelis Banos.

• Open@VT (RSS feed). Open access at Virginia Tech. From Philip Young.

• OpenBibBlog (RSS feed). "Das Blog zu OpenBib und OPAC 2.0." From Oliver Flimm. In German.

• OpenBioMed.info (RSS feed). From Charlie Greenberg.

• OpenContentLawyer (RSS feed). From Jordan S. Hatcher.

• Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OPES) (RSS Feed). From Pete Cannell, Andrew Law, Rosemarie Mcilwhan, Maggie Nguyen, Ronald Maintyre, Anna Page, Martin Weller, Beck Pitt, Bea de los Arcos, and Patrina Law.

• Opening Research at Reading Blog (ORRB) (RSS Feed). From Alice Sutton, Robert Darby, and Karen Rowlett.

• Openining Scholarship. (RSS feed) "Voices from the South." From Laura Czerniewicz, Eve Gray, Michael Paskevicius, Ed Rybicki, Shihaam Shaikh, and Michelle Willmers.

• Opening Science (RSS feed). From the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin.

• OpenPub(RSS feed).

• Open-STEPS (No RSS feed?). From Alex Corbi and Margo Thierry.

• OpenStreetMap Blog (RSS feed). From OpenStreetMap.

• The OpenScience Project (RSS feed). From Dan Gezelter and others, focusing on free and open-source scientific software.

• OpenScience. No RSS Feed. From Wageningen University & Research.

• OpenWetWare Community Blog (RSS feed). From OpenWetWare.

• Open Access (RSS feed). From Karen Marie Øvern, Klaus Tollan, and Aneta Laskowsk. In Norwegian.

• Open Access @ CUNY (RSS feed). "Highlighting open access efforts across the University". From librarians at the City University of New York.

• Open Access Advocate (RSS feed). Anon.

• Open Access Anthropology (RSS feed). From Kerim Friedman, Alex Golub, Kambiz Kamrani, and Christopher Kelty.

• Open Access Archeology (RSS feed). From Doug.

• Open Access Archivangelism (RSS feed). From Stevan Harnad.

• Open Access Blog. In Dutch.

• Open @ CUNY (RSS feed). "Just another CUNY Academic Commons site." From CUNY Academic Commons.

• Open Access & Open Data (RSS feed). From The Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands.

• Open Access, Freedom Space (RSS feed). From Zhiming Wang.

• Open Access Good Practice (RSS feed). From Sarah Fahmy. Project advisory group comprised of Jisc, ARMA, SCONUL, and RLUK.

• Open Access in Hannover (RSS feed). "Informationen und Veranstaltungen über Open Access in Hannover." In German.

• Open Access i Sverige "Kungliga bibliotekets blogg för alla som arbetar med open access i Sverige." (RSS feed). From Kungliga Bibliotekeket, The National Library of Sweden. In Swedish.

• Open Access Japan (RSS feed). Maintained by Shinji Mine. In Japanese.

• Open-Access-Netzwerk (RSS feed). From Robin Malitz. In German.

• An Open Access Peon. No RSS feed? From Tim Brody.

• Open Access Publisering (RSS feed). From Karen Marie Øvern. In Norwegian.

• Open Access Publishing Blog. (No RSS feed?)

• Open Access Week - October 19-23, 2009 (RSS feed).

• Open and Shut? (RSS feed). From Richard Poynder.

• Open Archaeology (RSS feed). From IOSA.it. (The blog is the IOSA.it home page.)

• Open Assembly Blog. Founded by Domi Enders.

• Open Bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data (RSS feed). From the Open Knowledge Foundation.

• Open Book Alliance (RSS feed). From Peter Brantley and Gary Reback. The blog is the OBA home page.

• Open Chemistry Web (RSS feed). From Will Griffiths.

• Open Citations (RSS feed). From The JISC Open Citations Project.

• Open Cloud Consortium (RSS feed).

• Open Content Alliance blog (RSS feed). From the OCA (the blog is its home page).

• Open Course Ware blog (RSS feed). From John Dehlin and others.

• Open Culture (RSS feed). "The best free cultural & educational media on the web."

• Open Data. (RSS feed). From The World Bank.

• Open Data Commons (RSS feed). From Jordan Hatch.

• Open Data Em Portugal (RSS feed). From Filipe Cruz.

• Open Data Foundation (RSS feed). From the Open Data Foundation.

• Open Data Forum Blog (No RSS feed). In Dutch.

• Open Data Institute of North Carolina Blog. From the Open Data Institute of North Carolina.

• Open Data Now. From Joel Gurin

• Open Data Science Jobs From Open Data Science Conference.

• The Open Dinosaur Project (RSS feed). From Andy Farke, Matt Wedel, and Mike Taylor.

• open & distance learning "Reflections and ideas on open and distance learning." From Irwin Devries.

• Open Education News (RSS feed). From David Wiley and others.

• Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (RSS feed). Led by the Open University in Scotland.

• Open Electronic Publishing (RSS feed). From the OpenEdition platform, developed by the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo, France).

• Open Everything[* (RSS feed). "Open-Data, Open-Access & Open-Design". In German.

• Open Exeter(RSS feed). "Human Factors in Research Data Management".

• Open Glam (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)(RSS feed). From The Open Knowledge Foundation.

• Open Government Blog (RSS feed). From the White House of the Obama administration.

• Open Humanities. From the Working Group on Humanities at the Open Knowledge Foundation. (No RSS feed?)

• Open Knowledge Community Stories (RSS feed). From Open Knowledge.

• Open Knowledge Ethiopia (RSS feed). From Open Knowledge Foundation.

• Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog (RSS feed). From Rufus Pollock and others.

• Open Knowledge Nepal From Open Knowledge International.

• Open Librarian(RSS feed). From Gerry McKiernan.

• The Open Library Blog (RSS feed). From The Open Library.

• Open Mathbook (RSS feed). From Albert Schueller.

• Open Matters(RSS feed). From MIT.

• Open Movements(RSS feed). From Stefan Baack. In German.

• Open Objects (RSS feed). From Mia Ridge.

• Open Personalized Health Informatics (RSS feed). "Open Access + Open Code + Open Data = Better Family Health."

• Open Reading Frame (RSS feed). From Bill Hooker.
  • Open Access/Open Science category

• Open Reflections (RSS feed). From Janneke Adema.

• Open Repository Blog (RSS feed). From Graham Triggs.

• Open Research Online (RSS feed). From Colin Smith and Sheila Chudasama at the (UK) Open University.

• Open Scholar C.I.C.. From a group of scholars, editors, and librarians working to improve scholarly evaluation and communication.

• Open Scholarship(RSS feed) "Promoting open knowledge and working practices within the University of Edinburgh". From The University of Edinburgh.

• Open Science dot com(RSS feed). A guide to Open Access publishing and Open Science. The blog is owned by De Gruyter Open. Most of blog posts by Witold Kieńć.

• Open Science Collaboration Blog. An open collaboration supported by the Center for Open Science.

• openscience.jp

• Open Science and Innovation Research Group (OSI) (RSS Feed). From Eduard Aibar Puentes, Josep Lladós Masllorens, Dr. Antoni Meseguer-Artola, Julià Minguillón, Maura Lerga, Peter Dunajcsik, Pedro Jacobetty, Óscar David Sánchez, and Rosen Bogdanov.

• Open Science Kentucky (RSS feed).

• Open Scotland: Promoting the Development and Adoption of Open Education Polices and Practices in Scotland. Started after the Open Scotland Summit.

• Open Scriptures (RSS feed). The blog for the project of the same name.

• Open Source Open History (RSS feed). From William G. Thomas.

• Open Source Paleontologist (RSS feed). From Andy.

• Open source customization [1]. From Open source customization.

• Open Students (RSS feed). "Student news from the OA movement." From the Right to Research Coalition.

• Open Students (RSS feed). From Gavin Baker. (No longer updated.)

• Open Thinking (RSS feed). "Rants & resources from an open educator." From Alex Couros.

• Opening Science (RSS feed). From The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).

• Opening Scientific Communication (RSS feed). From the Euroscience Working Group on Open Access.

• Open World (RSS feed). From Lorna M. Campbell.

• OptimalScholarship (RSS feed). From Alma Swan.

• Optimising resources to develop a strategic approach to Open Access (RSS feed). From Nick Woolley, David Young, and Ellen Cole at Northumbria University.

• The Orb From Open University Library Services.

• Orwik: The Open Science Platform (RSS feed). From Barak Shahen.

• Otwarta nauka (RSS feed). [Open Learning] In Polish.

• Outernet Blog (RSS feed). From Thane Richard.

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• The Parachute (RSS feed). From Jan Velterop.

• PhysMath Central Blog (RSS feed). From Chris Leonard.

• PLoS Blog (RSS feed) From the Public Library of Science.

• PLOS ECR Community (Early Career Researcher) (RSS feed) "Diverse perspectives on science and medicine." Edited by Sara Kassabian, Andreas Vilhelmsson, Mary Gearing, and Meredith Wright.

• Project Gutenberg News (RSS feed).

• Publications Router No RSS Feed? From EDINA.

• PubChem Blog (RSS feed). From PubChem.

• Public Domain Review (No RSS feed). From the Open Knowledge Foundation.

• Public Knowledge Project (RSS feed)

• Publish Open Access (RSS feed). From iMedPub.

• Publishing Archaeology Blog (RSS feed). From Michael E. Smith.

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• RepositoryMan (RSS feed). From Les Carr.

• Repository News (RSS feed). From the repository team at Leeds Beckett University.

• Research Communications Strategy (RSS feed). From the JISC-funded RSC project.

• Return on Academic Research (RSS feed). From Association ROARS. In Italian.

• Repositories Support Project blog (RSS feed). From the UK Repositories Support Project.

• RSP Blog Directory. From The JISC-funded Repositories Support Project.

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• SAS Open Journals (RSS feed). SAS = School of Advanced Study, University of London. From Peter Webster.

• Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week (SV-POW!) (RSS feed). Although this blog started out as pure palaeontology, it's now a 50-50 blend of sauropods and open-access advocacy.

• Scholarly Communication and Open Science (RSS Feed) From Yimei Zhu.

• Scholarly Communications @ Duke (RSS feed). From Kevin Smith.

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (RSS feed). From Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

• Scholarly Open Access (RSS feed). "Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing." From Jeffrey Beall.

• Scholar Blog (RSS feed). From the KUBIS Center for Scholarly Communication at the University of Copenhagen. In Danish.

• Science Commons (RSS feed)

• Science Hubs and Hub Science (RSS Feed). From Stéphane Mottin.

• Scientific Data Sharing Project. No RSS feed? From the Data Sharing Project, launched by Michael Weiner.

• Scinoptica (RSS feed). From Ulrich Herb. "Science consulting, open access, scientific publishing, open knowledge & open science." Partially in German language.

• A Scientist and the Web (RSS feed). From Peter Murray-Rust.

• Share Anthropology (RSS feed). "Sharing and disseminating open access anthropology." From Kerim Friedman.

• SHERPA RoMEO Blog (RSS feed). From SHERPA RoMEO.

• SHERPA Services Blog(RSS feed). "Opening Access to research". From JISC, The Joint Information Systems Committee.

• Sociology of Science and Open Access. From Luis-Reyes Galindo.

• SocOpen: The SocArXiv blog "Open archive of the social sciences."

• SONEX (Scholarly Output Notification and Exchange) blog (RSS feed). From the JISC-funded SONEX project.

• SPARC blog (RSS feed). From SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).

• Sphere (RSS feed). From Eloy Rodrigues and others. In Portuguese.

• Spreading Science (RSS feed). From Richard Gayle and others.
  • Only the posts about open access.

• SpringerOpen Blog (RSS Feed). From Regina Bauer, Scott Epstein, and Wakey Lau.

• SSRN blog (RSS feed).

• Students for Free Culture (RSS feed)

• Students for Free Culture - Chapter News (RSS feed)

• Subbiah Arunachalam: Open Access Advocate (RSS feed). From Subbiah Arunachalam.

• Peter Suber's blog at Google+. (Successor to his older blog, Open Access News, 2002-2010.) From Peter Suber.

• Support for Open Access Publishing (RSS Feed). "In support of OA movement, scholarly OA publication, Counter-criticism of OA Publishing."

• Sustaining the Knowledge Commons. From Heather Morrison.

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• The One Repo blog (RSS Feed) From Mike Taylor and Index Data.

• The Open Data Research Portal (RSS feed). From Fraunhofer Fokus. In Dutch and English.

• Trinity's Open Access News. (RSS feed).

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• UCR publicaa (RSS fedd). From the Latindex Project Representatives at the University of Costa Rica. In Spanish.

• UJDigispace (RSS feed). "Institutional repository and scholarly communication." (UJ = University of Johannesburg.) From Matizi.

• UK Council of Research Repositories (RSS feed). From Jenny Delasalle, Mary Robinson, and the committee of the UKCoRR.

• UK PubMed Central Blog (RSS feed). From UK PubMed Central.

• Universo Abierto (RSS feed). From Biblioteca de la Facultad de Traducción y Documentación de la Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). In Spanish.

• Unlocking Research (RSS feed). From University of Cambridge Office of Scholarly Communication.

• Useful Chemistry (RSS feed). From Jean-Claude Bradley and others.

• USFSP Open Access (RSS Feed). From Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

• Utah Open Textbook Project. "Determining the Cost Effectiveness and Educational Effectiveness of Open Textbooks." From Brigham Young University.

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• The Value of Openness "The PatientsLikeMe Blog." (RSS feed).

• VIKAS PSOAR (RSS feed). Pharmaceutical Sciences Open Access Resources: Vikas PSOAR and Vikas PGIAR. From Vikas Anand Saharan, Mahesh Kataria, and Vipin Kukkar.

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• Welsh Repository Network (RSS feed).

• Who Needs Access? You Need Access! (RSS feed). From the @ccessworking group.

• Wide Open (RSS feed). From John Hilton III.

• John Wilbanks' Blog (RSS feed). From John Wilbanks.

• Wiley Open Access Blog (RSS feed). From Wiley Open Access.

• Wissenschaftsurheberrecht (RSS feed). From Eric Steinhauer. In German.

• WissPub.net (RSS feed). From Heinz Pampel, Cornelius Puschmann, Nils Windisch, and Robert Forkel. In German.

• World of Chemistry for All - Free Chemistry Online Resources (RSS feed). Anon.

• WoW! Wouter on the Web (RSS feed). From Wouter Gerritsma.